Note 0i — Introduction By Marcus Hartog, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S., F.R.H.S.
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He says in a note, “This general type of reaction was described and illustrated in a different connection by Pfluger in ‘Pfluger’s Archiv. f.d. ges. Physiologie,’ Bd. XV.” The essay bears the significant title “Die teleologische Mechanik der lebendigen Natur,” and is a very remarkable one, as coming from an official physiologist in 1877, when the chemico-physical school was nearly at its zenith.